Word: row
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...those who row merely for pleasure peculiar advantages are offered this year. There have always been complaints that it was impossible to take out anything but singles and pairs because the four-oars and six-oars were kept for the crews. The six-oars now will be the only ones reserved for this purpose, while all the other craft will be at the disposal of any members of the clubs without regard to district...
...Cornell Freshmen have accepted the challenge of the Harvard Freshmen to row in eight-oared shells, a three-mile straight-away race...
...Marriott of last year's crew will, however, row stroke in the race; and Messrs. Mulholland and Cowles, also of last year's crew, will ultimately be in the boat. The coxswain is not yet chosen...
CAPTAIN NORTH has written to Cornell that it will not be practicable for the Freshmen to row a sixoared race, and refers them to his original challenge...
...seems likely that our Freshmen have at length found some one to row with. The Freshmen at Columbia are devoting all their energies to the support of the University four, and therefore could not accept the challenge sent to them; Yale would not accept; Princeton has no navy; but at Cornell the challenge has been taken into consideration, and the probabilities are that it will be accepted. Cornell appears to be all enthusiasm to revive a college sport for which she has so many advantages, and if the race is decided on she will probably send a formidable crew...